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About GNU MediaGoblin

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            <p>The <b>"What"</b> of the project is described on our <a href="/">main page</a>.  As for the rest...</p>

<h2>Why?</h2>

<p>Why do this? We believe it's necessary, for multiple reasons, but in a nutshell:</p>

<p>Centralization and proprietization of media on the internet is a serious problem and makes the web go from a system of extreme resilience to a system of frightening fragility.</p>

<p>Also, people should be able to free their data from proprietary control.</p>

<p>If you're reading this, chances are you already agree though.</p>

<h2>How?</h2>

<p>Things are mostly <a href="http://python.org">python</a> based.  Beyond that, see the <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/codebase.html#software-stack">software stack</a> section of the docs as the <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/designdecisions.html">design decisions</a> chapter.</p>

<h2>Who?</h2>

<p>We are goblins who live near the Earth's core.  We number one and twenty and we like to eat french fry sandwiches, though we accurately refer to them as chip butties.</p>

<p>A more useful list of the founders of GNU MediaGoblin follows:</p>

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    <b><a href="http://dustycloud.org/">Chris Webber</a></b> --
    Lead developer.  Currently works for <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> as a software engineer, working on the website, metadata stuff, etc.  Former <a href="http://getmiro.com">Miro</a> hacker, also worked on the <a href="http://miroguide.com">Miro Guide</a> and was the initial programmer for <a href="http://mirocommunity.org">Miro Community</a>.
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    <b><a href="http://bluesock.org/~willg/">Will Kahn-Greene</a></b> --
    Developer and emperor of documentation.  Also a <a href="http://getmiro.com">Miro</a> hacker, maintainer of <a href="http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/">PyBlosxom</a> and <a href="http://python.mirocommunity.org/">Python Miro Community</a>.  Overall charming fellow.
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    <b><a href="http://matt.lee.name/">Matt Lee</a></b> --
    FooCorp (provider of our infrastructure) mastermind #1.  <a href="http://fsf.org">FSF</a> campaigns manager.  A time traveler stranded in this era.
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    <b><a href="http://robmyers.org/">Rob Myers</a></b> --
    FooCorp mastermind #2.  Free culture activist and enthusiast.  Absolutely the most likely person to explain to you at length that <a href="http://creativecommons.org/characteristic/nc">NC</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/characteristic/nc">ND</a> licenses are a bad idea.
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    <b><a href="http://eximiousproductions.com/">Deb Nicholson</a></b> --
    Community outreach overlord.  Founder of the <a href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Womenscaucus">Women's Caucus</a>.  Secretly fights crime with the power of performing music loudly.
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  <li><b><a href="/pages/join.html">You???</a></b></li>
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<h2>When?</h2>

<p>Right now the code that we have is moving from base infrastructure to basic functionality.  We're hoping to have a better, more feature-ful version that is targeted for people other than us by around September/October 2011.  It'll let you log in, log out, post pictures, etc...  It'll be clear that we've accomplished something useful, but that there is still a lot of interesting things left to do.  Success on this largely depends on both the hard work of the current developers but also whether we can get new contributors.</p>

<p>On that note, <b>please <a href="/pages/join.html">join us as a contributor</a></b>... one way or another we could use your help!</p>

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